Stephen Leacock Quotes

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Lying is one of the techniques of politicians .... They are economical with the truth.

It wasn't intelligence — it was propaganda. They'd take a little bit of intelligence, cherry-pick it, make it sound much more exciting, usually by taking it out of context, often by juxtaposition of two pieces of information that don't belong together.

That product of the human intelligence which we denominate the Campaign Lie, though it did not originate in the United States, has here attained a development unknown in other lands. It is the destiny of America to try all experiments and exhaust all follies. In the short space of seventy-seven years, we have exhausted the efficiency of falsehood uttered to keep a man out of office.

A falsehood in which some truth is not stated at the beginning, cannot be maintained in the end.

Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

I keep reading between the lies.